Junior Job (Bug) - Amarok

[Matěj Laitl]

On 15. 3. 2013 Márcio Paiva wrote:
> Hello Matěj!

Hi Márcio,
first, I'm very sorry for a VERY late reply - you're mail just slipped through 
my attention and got lost in my Inbox. :-(

It is best to send the e-mail also to amarok-devel at kde.org (to which you 
should subscribe) to prevent such situation in future.

> I'm trying to get started contributing to Amarok, so I compiled it from
> source (not as easy as it sounded =P), and headed for some easy bugs to fix.
> 
> I came across this one
> 
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?i[c++]d=311329<https://bugs.kde.org/show_b
> ug.cgi?id=311329>
> 
> (better error handling), in which you said
> 
> *I'm making this an junior job (about better error reporting) suitable for
> Amarok developer newcomers, students wanting to participate in GSoC. (to
> show they can solve bugs in code) etc... Newcomers: feel free to contact me
> by e-mail or ping strohel on #amarok IRC, I can get you started.
> *
> So i thought i should contact you for some hints on how to get started =)

Right. :-)

> Specially, i'd like to know how you guys browse your code. Do you use the
> QT Creator (I have version 5 installed), Eclipse for C++, or another IDE?
> Or just browse use vi, grep, and shell stuff?  I'm used to coding in Java
> and I always used Eclipse, so i'm a bit confused by the code structure.

Anyone is free to use whatever they want, but generally a C++ -aware IDE works 
best, I use KDevelop (do enable the Qt Documentation plug-in), some use Qt 
Creator with success.

> I'm very excited about this. I'm currently browsing through the code,
> trying to get the big picture of it.

Good, I recommend to read through entire HACKING folder. For general "starting 
with Amarok development" please see 
http://community.kde.org/Amarok/Development/Join

> *About me:
> *
> - KDE bugtracking and KDE Identity: marcioapf at gmail.com (this email)
> - #Amarok channel: mpaiva
> - Brazilian college student
> 
> Thanks for the help!

Again, sorry it came really late.

Have fun,
		Matěj